Spectrum Sharing For Information Freshness: A Repeated Games Perspective
Shreya Tyagi, Sneihil Gopal, Rakesh Chaturvedi, Sanjit K. Kaul

TL;DR
This paper models spectrum sharing among selfish sources aiming to minimize information age, using infinitely repeated games to develop cooperative strategies that improve spectrum efficiency and prevent unilateral deviations.
Contribution
It introduces a repeated game framework to analyze and design cooperative strategies for spectrum sharing, extending beyond previous one-shot game models.
Findings
Access-fair and age-fair strategies are SPNE when collision slots exceed successful transmission slots.
Neither strategy is SPNE when collision slots are shorter.
Simulations suggest potential SPNE solutions in challenging cases.
Abstract
We consider selfish sources that send updates to a monitor over a shared wireless access. The sources would like to minimize the age of their information at the monitor. Our goal is to devise strategies that incentivize such sources to use the shared spectrum cooperatively. Earlier work has modeled such a setting using a non-cooperative one-shot game, played over a single access slot, and has shown that under certain access settings the dominant strategy of each source is to transmit in any slot, resulting in packet collisions between the sources' transmissions and causing all of them to be decoded in error at the monitor. We capture the interaction of the sources over an infinitely many medium access slots using infinitely repeated games. We investigate strategies that enable cooperation resulting in an efficient use of the wireless access, while disincentivizing any source from…
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TopicsAge of Information Optimization · Economic Policies and Impacts
